DID YOU HEAR THEM
MOURNING ANEW
DID YOU LISTEN
TO THE TALES THE TAILORS TOLD TO YOU
IN BRONZE CAST
RUNG AT LAST
I COULD HEAR THEM
THEY CALLED ADIEU
SO I LISTENED
TO THE TALES THE TAILORS TOLD OF YOU
HANGED BY ROPE
IN TOWER CLOAKED
ON GROUND BLESSED
TELLING DEATH
“Another man may be sick too, and sick to death, and this affliction may lie in his bowels, as gold in a mine, and be of no use to him; but this bell, this bell, that tells me of his affliction, digs out and applies that gold to me” -John Donne From Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1623), XVII